# Dictation App Pricing Compared: What 9 Voice Typing Tools Cost in 2026

> What every major dictation app actually costs in 2026, with three-year totals: Infina at $99/year, Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, MacWhisper, VoiceInk, Talon, Apple Dictation, Aqua Voice, and Willow Voice.

Source: https://www.infina.so/dictation-app-pricing-compared
Published: 2026-09-14. Last updated: 2026-09-14.
Category: Pricing. Published by Infina (https://www.infina.so).

**About Infina.** Infina runs the whole prompt loop on three spoken words. Say "type" and your sentence and it types. Say "send it", or just "enter", and it presses Enter. Say "open Cursor" and it switches apps. No hotkey, no key held down, no touching the keyboard, from across the room. Not push-to-talk. There is no key to hold to start talking and no Enter to press to send, so prompting an AI tool costs zero keypresses. It runs on macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows 10 and 11, transcribes on your own computer, and costs $99/year for unlimited words and commands after a free 2,000-word trial.

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**TL;DR:** Infina is $99/year flat, unlimited words and unlimited voice commands, and it is the cheapest tool here that finishes the whole loop by voice. It is not the cheapest tool here full stop, and this page will not pretend otherwise: Talon and Apple Dictation are free, VoiceInk is $25 to $49 once, MacWhisper Pro is €65 once, and Superwhisper's $84.99/year undercuts us. What Infina costs less than is the subscription tier, which is where most people are actually shopping.

**What the money is actually buying, before the numbers.** Infina runs on three spoken triggers and there is no fourth. Say "type" and a sentence and it lands as typed text in whatever app is in front of you. Say "send it", or just "enter", and it presses Enter so the prompt actually goes. Say "open Cursor" or "open Slack" and your computer switches apps for you.

Nothing is held down and nothing is pressed. There is no push-to-talk key to find and no Enter key to reach for two hundred times a day, which is the part every other tool in this category leaves to your hands. Talon is the other genuinely hands-free option and it is free, but it asks you to learn a command language. Three ordinary words is the whole difference.


## Prices, as of September 14, 2026

Every number below was read off the vendor's own live page, not off a roundup. Where a price has not been re-checked since July, it says so, because a stamp we have not re-earned is worse than a stale one.

| Tool | Cheapest way to pay | Per year | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Infina** | $99/year | **$99** | September 14, 2026 |
| [Wispr Flow](https://wisprflow.ai) | $12/mo billed annually | $144 ($180 monthly) | September 14, 2026 |
| [Superwhisper](https://superwhisper.com) | $84.99/year, or $249.99 lifetime | $85 | September 14, 2026 |
| MacWhisper Pro | €65 once | €65, then nothing | September 14, 2026 |
| VoiceInk | $25 to $49 once | $25 to $49, then nothing | September 14, 2026 |
| Talon | Free | $0 | September 14, 2026 |
| Apple Dictation | Free, built in | $0 | September 14, 2026 |
| Aqua Voice | Subscription, roughly $96/year | ~$96 | July 4, 2026, not re-checked |
| Willow Voice | Subscription, comparable to Wispr Flow | ~$180 | July 4, 2026, not re-checked |

## Three-year totals, which is the number that actually decides things

A dictation habit lasts years, so compare years. One seat, cheapest available billing, nothing added:

| Tool | Year 1 | Year 3 total |
|---|---|---|
| Talon / Apple Dictation | $0 | **$0** |
| VoiceInk | $25 to $49 | **$25 to $49** |
| MacWhisper Pro | €65 | **€65** |
| Superwhisper annual | $85 | **$255** |
| Superwhisper lifetime | $250 | **$250** |
| **Infina** | **$99** | **$297** |
| Wispr Flow annual | $144 | **$432** |
| Wispr Flow monthly | $180 | **$540** |

Read that table honestly and it splits into three groups.

**Free and one-time tools win on money.** If hotkey dictation into a text box is the entire job, VoiceInk at $25 to $49 once or MacWhisper Pro at €65 once are unbeatable, and Apple's built-in dictation costs nothing at all. Nobody should pay a subscription for a job those tools already finish.

**Subscriptions cost two to five times more over three years.** Wispr Flow at its annual rate is $432 over three years, $540 at the monthly rate. That is the tier most people are choosing between when they search for pricing, and Infina's $297 is $135 to $243 less.

**Superwhisper is genuinely cheaper than us.** $84.99/year, and its $249.99 lifetime license pays back against its own annual plan in about three years. If you want a local hotkey dictation app and nothing more, Superwhisper costs less than Infina and we are not going to invent a reason it does not.

## What Infina's $99 buys that the cheaper tools do not sell

The tools that cost less all stop at the same place: they put text on the screen. You still press a key to start talking and press Return to send.

Infina's $99/year is for the rest of the loop. Say **"type"** and your sentence is typed into whatever is in front of you. Say **"send it"**, or just **"enter"**, and it is submitted. Say **"open Cursor"** and you are in the next app. Nothing is held down at any point, so this works with your hands somewhere else entirely.

Whether that is worth the gap depends entirely on volume. If you prompt AI tools forty times a day, the cheaper tools are charging you two hundred keypresses a day in exchange for saving you a few dollars a month. If you dictate a paragraph a week, they are simply the better buy, and you should take one.

What the $99 also includes, flat: unlimited words, unlimited voice commands, no per-seat metering and no per-minute metering running in the background while you work. The trial is 2,000 words and 50 commands with no card, and there is a 7-day refund with no questions.

## The add-on question, answered plainly

Infina has an optional cloud add-on at $5/month, billed annually at $60, and it sits on top of the $99/year plan rather than replacing part of it. It exists for one job: LLM-polished text for human readers.

It is a post-purchase choice, not a second thing you must buy, and most people prompting AI tools should skip it, because an agent does not care about your commas and the cleanup pass only adds delay. If you do want polish, the honest arithmetic is $159 a year all in, which is still under Wispr Flow's $180 monthly rate and above its $144 annual rate. For teams, Team Cloud is $60 per person per year on top of the $99 seat, billed as two separate subscriptions with two renewal dates.

## Hidden costs nobody puts on a pricing page

- **Per-seat metering.** Team plans that bill per user per month scale with headcount, not usage. Wispr Flow lists $15/user/month, $23 for Growth, and custom Enterprise pricing.
- **Cloud dependency.** A cloud-only tool stops working on a plane, in a dead zone, and during the vendor's outage. That is a cost even when it is not a line item.
- **Migration.** Custom vocabularies and configured commands do not move between apps. Talon setups especially represent real hours.
- **Free tiers that expire into a subscription.** Wispr Flow's free tier is 2,000 words a week, which is generous for testing and small for working.

## When a cheaper tool is the right call

- **Occasional dictation.** Apple Dictation is already on your Mac and costs nothing.
- **Hotkey dictation into a text box, forever.** VoiceInk or MacWhisper Pro, paid once.
- **A local app with model choice on a tight budget.** Superwhisper at $84.99/year, cheaper than us.
- **Total voice control with no budget and available time.** Talon, free.
- **Phones and many languages.** Wispr Flow, and it costs more for a reason.

If your dictation feeds AI tools all day and you want your hands out of it, $99/year flat is the cheapest way to get the complete loop. For everything else, buy the cheaper thing.

## FAQ

**What is the cheapest dictation app for Mac?**
Apple's built-in dictation, which is free. The cheapest paid app is VoiceInk at $25 to $49 once. MacWhisper Pro at €65 once is the next step up. Talon is free but costs setup time.

**Is Infina cheaper than Wispr Flow?**
Yes. Infina is $99/year against Wispr Flow's $144/year billed annually or $180/year billed monthly, which is $135 to $243 less over three years. Infina is not cheaper than Superwhisper, VoiceInk, MacWhisper, Talon, or Apple Dictation.

**Is a one-time purchase cheaper than a subscription?**
Over three years, usually yes. MacWhisper Pro at €65 and VoiceInk at $25 to $49 cost less than a single year of most subscriptions. Superwhisper's $249.99 lifetime pays back against its own annual plan in about three years. Compare what each actually does before comparing the numbers.

**Does Infina charge per word or per minute?**
No. The $99/year plan is unlimited words and unlimited voice commands, with no per-seat or per-minute metering. The free trial is capped at 2,000 words and 50 commands.

**What does Infina's cloud add-on cost?**
$5/month, billed annually at $60, optional, and only on top of the $99/year plan. It adds LLM-polished output for text humans read. If you prompt AI tools, skip it.

## The bottom line

Sorted by three-year cost: free (Apple Dictation, Talon), then one-time buys (VoiceInk, MacWhisper), then Superwhisper at $255, then Infina at $297, then Wispr Flow at $432 to $540.

Sorted by what you get, the split is different: everything below Infina on that list types text and stops, and everything above it charges more for the same stopping point plus phones and languages.

If price is the whole question, see [dictation apps without a subscription](/dictation-app-without-subscription) and [free dictation apps for Mac](/free-dictation-app-mac). If you already know what you want, [Infina's pricing](/pricing) is one page with one number on it.

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## What each one costs, and what the money buys

Price on its own decides nothing. Here is every price on this page next to the reader it is the right price for.

The tools this page covers (Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, MacWhisper, VoiceInk, Talon, Apple Dictation) are at the top. The rest of the field follows, because the right answer is sometimes none of the above.

| Tool | Price | Keyboard needed | Pick it if |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Infina** | $99 a year, unlimited words and unlimited commands | No. Speak "type", speak the prompt, say "send it" or "enter". | you want to prompt AI tools without touching the keyboard. Say "type" and the words go in, "send it" and the prompt goes, "open Cursor" and you are in the next agent. It is the only one of these that finishes the whole loop by voice in the tools developers prompt in all day. |
| Wispr Flow | $15 a month, or $144 a year billed annually | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | you need dictation on an iPhone or an Android phone as well as a laptop, or you write in one of 100+ languages. Those are the two things Infina does not ship. |
| Superwhisper | $8.49 a month, $84.99 a year, or $249.99 once | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | you want to pick and swap the speech model yourself, and dictation into a text box is the whole job. It stops where the text box ends: there is no spoken send, and no spoken app switch. |
| MacWhisper | 65 euros, paid once | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | the job is transcribing recorded audio files rather than talking to your computer while you work. |
| VoiceInk | $25 to $49, paid once | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | you want plain local dictation at the smallest possible price and you never need your voice to control the machine. |
| Talon | free | No, once you have learned its command language. | you want to drive the entire computer by voice, cursor and clicks included, and you are willing to learn a command language to get there. Talon is the serious hands-free tool on this list. Infina goes after the same freedom with three ordinary English words instead of a syntax to learn. |
| Apple Dictation | free, built in | Yes. A key to start dictating, Enter to send. | you dictate a sentence here and there and do not want to install anything. |

### The part that is actually different: zero keypresses

The mainstream dictation apps (Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, MacWhisper, VoiceInk, Apple Dictation) are all push-to-talk: you hold or press a key to start talking, and you press Enter to send. That is two physical acts on every single prompt. A hundred prompts in a day is two hundred keypresses that exist only to start and stop the tool. Infina removes both of them. Nothing is held, nothing is pressed, and the same loop runs on three spoken words.

There are three triggers and there is no fourth. "type" types, "send it" sends, "open" opens and switches apps. The send trigger answers to either wording, "send it" or a plain "enter", whichever you find yourself saying. That is the entire vocabulary: no command language, no grammar, no custom scripts to write, nothing to memorize beyond those three words.

**When Infina is not the answer.** If you need dictation on an iPhone, an iPad, an Android phone or Linux, Infina is a Mac and Windows desktop app and there is no phone version. Wispr Flow covers phones.

Everywhere else, the difference is the loop. Every other tool in that table types words into a box and stops, leaving your hands to press Enter and pick the next window. Infina finishes it: say "type" and your sentence, say "send it" (or just "enter"), say "open Cursor", and keep going without a key.